A couple of feedback have mentioned the generator tag. Sounds like a good one to add to the template.
Another feedback mentioned that the lastBuildDate tag is empty. Well yes it is. Lets see what blogger templare variable we can stuff in there.
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mine does
http://chatquahandgaloshes.blogspot.com/
but when I put the axom rss link in it didn’t work.
peace,
a
p.s. u might wanna update your FAQ telling people that. I thought it was my RSS feed not my actual blog that was for podcast.
Something which had me foxed for ages, and which might we worth mentioning here.
I have had a blog for a while and am used to producing RSS feeds from blogger. When I read these instructions my head was still thinking “syndicaiton feed” and as a result the output from my blog was still going to “index.html” and the feed I thought was going to include the ENCLOSURE tags was called blog.xml.
The people at feedburner were therefore failing to turn the RSS feed file I was pointing them at into something usable, whereas the index.html file was quite usable.
I now realise that these instructions are for producing ONLY a feed using the main blogger functions and Site Feed generation should be disabled. So…..it might be worth adding the following instructions to make it clear for thickkies like me.
1) In the Settings/Publishing page of Blogger, give the blog filename a .xml extension.
2) On the Settings/Site Feed page of Blogger, ensure “Publish Site Feed” is set to OFF
Hope that helps to avoid some others the hours of frustration and headscratching I have been having here.
Thanks for all the comments. I tweeks the instructions to reflect the ideas you folk posted. Please keep up the tweeking, it helps
-tom
How the hell can you give the blog filename an xml extension? It only allows you to give the section between “http://” and “.blogspot.com” .
Has anyone successfully gotten their blogcast to work?
It worked!!! It totally worked. Thank you Tom. I just got into downloading podcasts about a month ago and decided it was something I wanted to try. Thanks for giving me step by step on how to publish my podcasts.
I will say one thing about your instructions. I followed them to the letter and once I got to the end I was totally at a loss on how to actually upload my MP3 file or attach the URL at which my MP3 file is located to the blog post. I had to read the comments to figure out that the MP3 URL link goes in the Link field under Title on the blog post. I didn’t really get that at first.
The other thing is in your instructions it states that the URL one should put in their podcasting software (in my case Ipodder) should be the URL of their blog plus a forward slash plus the name of their blog post plus the extension xml. Well that did not work. And as I read the comments I figured out that I was only suppose to put the URL of my blog. Once I did that Ipodder visited teh URL and listed my individual blog post as an “episode” to be downloaded.
Tom, thanks so much for showing me how to do this. This is so great. Now let’s just see if I can make some decent content available.
For others who are even newer to this than me you might want to mention in the initial instructions that it is necessary to store one’s MP3 podcast on some remote server someonewhere. I’m using server space that I purchased from Yahoo. But when I first read your instructions I thought there was a way to actually UPLOAD the MP3 as some sort of attachment to my blog post.
Tom, where on the Internet are your podcasts located. As I stated in my last post I put a test mp3 on server space that I purchased on yahoo briefcase. When I added my blog URL as a subscription to Ipodder it deed indeed go to the blog and list my latest post as the most recent podcast. But for some reason when it comes to downloading the podcast it is not working. Now I know the URL it pasted into the Link field works because when I go to my post management page and click on the link, it opens a dialogue box that asks me if I want to play the mp3 or save it to disk. So I don’t know why it isn’t downloading on Ipodder.
It doesn’t really matter because there is a size limitation on files I can upload to my yahoo briefcase. That is why I originally asked where on the Internet you are storing the mp3 files for your podcast.
Hey Tom. Nice tutorial. I have taken your code and modified it a bit to fit into my blogger template. You can see an example here. You can also view the modifications I have made to your code here.
This is really great. Thanks!
I am lost as to where to put the xml on the setting/publish page, I try to add it but the only two options I see are for blogspot address and notfy weblogs, what am i missing??? When i try to change the address it says that it will not allow me to do it. I don’t get what is wrong. Please email me at g7whatever@gmail.com with instruction. Thanks so much.
I have the same problem, and I’m not sure how I get the mp3 in there
this is what mine looks like, its not good.
http://wtfaholepodcast.blogspot.com
Has anyone found out exactly where to put the .XML extension? My podcast works fine, only that when you go to http://mypodcast.blogspot.com the page is blank.
I wish I knew how to make my podcast directed to http://mypodcast.blogspot.com/mypodcast.xml Im sure there will be a pge with the podcast’s metadata.
You rock! This saved me days of work. Thanks a ton!
I’m a Mac person (please don’t lecture me) and I use iTunes.
That said, it seems to be working EXCEPT (and they’re biggies):
1) Although the podcast feed and individual messages appear in iTunes, the Descriptions (content of blog entries) do not appear.
2) iTunes can’t open the entries. I’m using a link that begins with http://www etc. rather than ftp:// . iTunes tells me that the file format is not compatible. But I’m following Apple’s instructions for saving the file in MP4 ACC format.
I’m baffled. Anyone successfully using this to feed iTunes? Can you give me some clues?
ok so this template does not work right with iTunes, but when I downloaded iPodder I was able to get it to subscribe to my blog and even download the link to my mp3 file….but when it down loads it says that it is 0.0mb. So it followed the link to my mp3 file but it is not downloading. So what am I still doing wrong, do I need to tweak the link to my mp3 files so iPodder actually downloads them or do I need to tweak my blog to point to my file differently. The second question is if I add a new file weekly do I make a new blog for each Podcast or just a new post for each new file??? ANy info would be great. Thanks
Any ideas on getting it to work with iTunes?
I got it to work great with iPodder, and with Some Desi’s modifications (put it into a form and then a textarea and you can still have the pretty look of the blog, and you can click on the title to listen to the mp3 without subscribing).
Interesting blog. I have a xml format blog.
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Re the query below:
How the hell can you give the blog filename an xml extension? It only allows you to give the section between “http://” and “.blogspot.com” .
You need to change the option in publishing to publish via FTP to another hosting domain. Then you get all of the optoins described. It won’t work hosted on the blogger site because of the generic header getting in the way.
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please help if anyone has a chance, i am trying to incorporate audioblogger into a podcast.
the information here does not seem to work right.
the page looks all funny which is fine, but its not working.
i cant change the xml setting by going to ftp, because i have no hosting, i am trying to do this straight from blogger.
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I was not able to do the below in the description sinse there is no option to “give the blog filename a .xml extension”. Please help. I am a newbie and I have a homepage with mp3s that I want to publish fx on itunes.
1) In the Settings/Publishing section give the blog filename a .xml extension. For example nameofyourpodcast.xml When you need to give people or podcasting apps the url for the podcast feed you give them http://nameofyourblog.blogspot.com/nameofyourpodcast.xml
so, the below comment means that the instructions are misleading since 1. if you cant use the blogspot to store your blog you cant follow the following instructions:
“1) In the Settings/Publishing section give the blog filename a .xml extension. For example nameofyourpodcast.xml When you need to give people or podcasting apps the url for the podcast feed you give them http://nameofyourblog.blogspot.com/nameofyourpodcast.xml“
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How the hell can you give the blog filename an xml extension? It only allows you to give the section between “http://” and “.blogspot.com” .
You need to change the option in publishing to publish via FTP to another hosting domain. Then you get all of the optoins described. It won’t work hosted on the blogger site because of the generic header getting in the way.
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I now got so far as to get a xml file generated and placed on my server. but trying to open it in the browser I get thte following.
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
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“rss version=”2.0” “dc=”http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/”>
… and then the file content continues
now it sort of works… the title and information is visible on itunes… but still I cant get the mp3s to link correctly… in the link window (adding an entry to the blog) I add the absolute path to my mp3.
is that the way to do it?
so in essence, you can’t really use blogger and host on blogger to have a podcast.
kinda defeats the purposes … oh well, I’ll delete my blogger a/c and do my own thing.
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There is no way I can add .xml files. The only type of files i can add are the mp3 ones. Now, how many mp3 tunes can I add? If the answer is as many as I want, how do I do it?
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